Mattiverse Next - Session 6

More Dungeoning!

• A bunch of sarcophagi arranged around a pentagram. There are zombies in them.
  • (all undead are halflings)
• They avoid the pentagram. Turns out it was a good idea--Four steps in after and gets burned for the trouble.
• There is a chest in the corner of the room. It is full of broken black opals. It is also full of SPIDERS AHHH
  • Good thing it was opened from afar by a mage hand! They are squished and blasted
• Attempt at short-rest is interrupted by shadows!
• Another attempt is interrupted by will o'wisps!
• Third time's the charm, party spends some dice.
• Down the hallway, a blocked door with machine noises behind it.
  • It opens after some effort to what was apparently a finely arrayed dining hall. Once-luxurious mahogany steadily rots under the barest black remnants of some long-forgotten feast.
  • In the south is a table with manacles and exposed gears that was clearly some sort of entertainment torture device. Mystifyingly, it is actively running.
    • Naturally, it's actually sapient, and it attacks the party. The party attacks back, and beats it off, but not before Four gets to spend some time on the Torture Sex Music Machine.
    • It also attracts a ghast's attention, a clearly deadlier version of the ghouls already encountered.
• Next is a nicely appointed bedroom. Party manages a long rest, but only after being attacked by quasits and a will o' wisp.
• Next is a room with a large statue of a nasty dog-spider hybrid, looking suspiciously like the demons the party fought upstairs. It is being ridden by something halfling-sized, but that the party has trouble actually saying is a halfling.
  • It's actually a gargoyle! And it hates dogs! Luckily, it fails to land a hit on Pepper. Party smashes it good.
• Moving West, the party runs into a bunch more zombies, this time accompanied by an actual spider dog demon-thing. It is a harrowing battle!
  • Afterwards, they immediately find a safe place to rest, but one they aren't willing to take advantage of right now for fear of attracting all the rest of the dungeon.
• Banner reveals that he has been hearing a voice talking in his head, but no one else seems to be hearing it.
• Moving on, the party runs into more Will O' Wisps, in a hallway that seems to be longer than it should.
  • After the hallway, reality snaps back into position--except that Four and Banner seem to have not gotten the message. They remain Tiny-sized Halflings.
  • In the room is a butcher. What meat it has available to butcher is anyone's guess, but the party attacks (it is another ghast).
• Session ends there.

Awards

• 100 xp to all for assorted Zombies
• 50 xp to all for a couple a' Shadow Hectors
• 50 xp to all for two Swarms of Spiders (ahh!)
• 200 xp to all for a Will O' Wisp hector
• 135 xp to all for Torture Sex Music Machine
• 135 xp to all for a Ghast
• 75 xp to all for Will O' Wisp and Quasit Hectors
• 135 xp to all for Gargoyle Spider Dog Demon-Thing
• 125 xp to all for a Spider Dog Demon-Thing
• 115 xp to all for 4 Skeletons, 6 Zombies
• 230 xp to all for 2 Will O' Wisps
• 50 xp to all for the Ghoul Butcher
• 115 xp to all for 1 Will O' Wisps